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Recent Examples of nonstandard
Platforms powered by compounders offering medications Big Pharma never prioritized: low-cost combo topicals, precise dosing, and nonstandard formats that reflect real-world patient needs.
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Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
The buttons for switching between these sections are across the bottom of the interface, which is itself nonstandard (most people would look to the top of the interface).
—PC Magazine, 9 June 2025
The only way to give riders the assurance their helmet is safe is to ensure that nonstandard helmets don’t reach the market.
—Tanya Mohn, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Additionally, the numeric keypad has a nonstandard three-column layout with narrow keys.
—PCMAG, 10 Feb. 2025
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Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
The buttons for switching between these sections are across the bottom of the interface, which is itself nonstandard (most people would look to the top of the interface).
—PC Magazine, 9 June 2025
The only way to give riders the assurance their helmet is safe is to ensure that nonstandard helmets don’t reach the market.
—Tanya Mohn, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Additionally, the numeric keypad has a nonstandard three-column layout with narrow keys.
—PCMAG, 10 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonstandard
Adjective
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The intellectual premise of the movie—true to Greaves’s modernist spirit—arises from the practical premise of its production, namely, a fusion of celebration and cerebration, unity of purpose and dialectical confrontations.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2025
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Kirsh sets the tone for the brainier side of this episode via two of this episode’s punchier scenes — ones where the dialectic dialogue really pops.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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As a freshman, Long was the Western Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year and started in Sacramento State’s first-ever Division I NCAA regional game.—
Stephen Hobbs,
Sacbee.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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Boxes of tea stacked high on shelves await distribution to regional wholesale retailers and online customers nationwide.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
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But unlike the evolution of colloquial language, which is largely arbitrary, the evolution of scientific terms must reflect our current understanding of reality.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
23 Sep. 2025
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In a market where there is a colloquial term for consumers who want their spirits bottled at the highest strength possible (proof hounds), this low-strength whiskey is a bold move.—
Chris Perugini,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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For such an insistence on democracy, the pavilion is curiously tepid in its politics, save for a kind of vernacular populism and some PBS-esque nods to the Gee’s Bend quilters.—
Kate Wagner,
Curbed,
5 Sep. 2025
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Once again, his use of vernacular and social media address appeared to be mocking the President’s own style.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
3 Sep. 2025
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Either way, these tech vendors had established a history of getting customers to adopt substandard technology in order to close a deal.—
Chris Degnan,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2025
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For such a popular restaurant, Matsuri tolerates a lot of flies, unwashed walls and substandard handwashing, as detailed in a Miami Herald story this week on last week’s inspection.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
26 Sep. 2025
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Since the start of the war in Ukraine, more than 272,000 children in Ukraine have benefitted from learning interventions with supplies provided by UNICEF, and over 400,000 children have engaged in formal or nonformal education.—
Sarah Ferguson,
Forbes,
18 Aug. 2022
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But even Cunard has nonformal settings where dressed-down can go, including the buffet, casino and pub.—
Hannah Sampson,
Houston Chronicle,
20 Dec. 2019
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Long sought-after by fans, Electric Nebraska is the informal title of the album that Springsteen and the E Street Band recorded in 1982 from a collection of demos for his follow-up to The River.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
3 Oct. 2025
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Use just one to three large informal dahlias with smaller additions like spray roses, cosmos, eucalyptus, or larkspur.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Nonstandard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonstandard. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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